Diddly,
I'm sure, in the west, that few professional pilots would bat a eyelid at a female colleague, but not sure if the public are the same. I was on a go flight recently and the FO, who was a woman, was doing the cabin talking bit. I was in a party of about 30, and every single one though the voice was a flight attendant. When I said, no that was the pilot, they all said 'well that explains the hard landing'. (I noticed there was a strong wind across the runway, which explained it better to me.) They seem to be little things that expose preconceptions.
The quotation from captsumday reminds me of that Yeats poem about the Irish airman, how does it go? The years to come, a waste of breath, when compared with this life, this death. Or something. I'll have to look it up now!